James 4:1-10 ▼

1 Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?

2 You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

3 You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, |The Spirit which he made to dwell in us yearns jealously|?

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.